Will that be an option in the future? 😆
Discussion
Sure, as long as it's roasted here.
We've 🇸🇻 exported green coffee whose commercial value is very low for over a century now and right now, in real terms, they're lower than they've been in a very long time.The entire value chain from roasting and packing and grinding into K-Cups or boiling it and freeze drying into instant happens elsewhere.
Prices for green coffee today, in nominal USD not adjusted for inflation, are very similar today than in the 1970s. Green coffee, it seems, hasn't had inflation. TLDR: producing countries are getting screwed by the market big time. My goal, little by little, is to get the value chain to happen here so we can benefit from the crop we grow.
For specialty coffee I can keep it around $20 a lb delivered to the US or Canada which is comparable with specialty shops there, and I can have it in peoples hands in a couple of weeks so freshness is not a concern. Our coffee comes in 1 lb bags, not 12oz or even 8-10o which a lot of roasters use now due to shrinkflation. For commercial supermarket type coffee, the cargo ship will do.